She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.

The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

No: I am not tired. I have a curious constitution. I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely." ~ Sherlock Holmes

The emotional qualities are antagonistic to clear reasoning.

‎A change of work is the best rest.

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?

Courage isn’t being a dragon. Neither is it behaving like a dragon. Nor is it taking up arms to fight and defeat dragons. Courage is being a lamb standing with poise among dragons.

A win would be better than a draw.

Tommy Dorsey was the last of the band leaders... He was ahead of his time; if he got drunk, he got difficult, but then who the hell isn't difficult when you get drunk.

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

Roger Maris lost his hair the season he hit sixty-one, I still have all my hair, but when it's over, I'm going home to Mobile and fish for a long time.

If citizens followed their leaders' example throughout history, the human race would have died out centuries ago.

Romantic love is sexually passionate love. Romance uses sexual intimacy to create or amplify closeness and mutual fulfillment.

Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent and urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

I think if NATO haven't expanded, we would have a no-man's zone between the E.U. and NATO and Russia, and that would be very dangerous.